The velvet and corduroy industry; a brief account of the various processes connected with the manufacture of cotton pile goods (1922)
Cooke, J. Herbert · London, New York [etc.] Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd · leaf 32
bus found cottongrowing there, and Cortez found the Aztecs of Mexicoemploying cotton in their garments. It has been statedthat the Island of Barbados was the original home ofthe cotton plant, and certainly the long stapledvariety—Gossypium Barbadense—exhibiting the longest MATERIALS, ETC. 17… … Fig. 1VELVET COTTON Islands is, however, obviously very limited. Generallyspeaking, the long-stapled varieties find their successfulhomes in the alluvial valleys of rivers subject to over-flowing, as in the Mississippi and the Nile. The depositleft on the land by these overflowings forms the best…
Velvet · Cotton manufacture
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